139. Reaching climax
139. Reaching climax
Like a flower in bloom, Arin's face was bright and radiant.
Having finished cleaning the house, Arin was heading to the Duke's estate to pick up Ryu-o.
Last time, she could only do it for five hours, but this time, she planned to stick to him all day long.
Arin imagined Ryu-o shaking his waist frantically.
She opened the door to the residence she had arrived at before she knew it.
"Hehehe... Slurrrp!♥ Honey~ it's time to turn..."
-Thud! Thud! Thud! Thud!
"I love you, Ryu-o-ya!!! I love you!! Huuuu...♥♥♥"
"Haa... Hilda."
"Master... Masteeeer♥♥♥"
"Eh...?"
She discovered Ryu-o shaking his waist frantically.
Arin saw the two women, which made her frown, and her mouth hung open.
The Princess had altered the clothes usually worn by students to be skin-tight.
Cheon Hwa-ryeong was wearing an outfit that had a significant portion of the servants' clothing cut away.
"Ah... Ugh..."
Seeing herself frozen in shock, Hilda and Cheon Hwa-ryeong curled up the corners of their mouths.
""Hmph...""
The exact same expression she had made before.
That expression that made them feel immense superiority as females.
Arin realized her mistake.
If she could do it, it meant they could do it too.
With a single moment of carelessness, she had revealed her secret technique to the world.
She should have held back and done it secretly at home...
Arin quickly changed her clothes and dove into the bed.
-Thrust, thrust, thrust, thrust!! Slurp, slurp, slurp♥
"Ungheuuuk!! I'm dy...ing♥♥♥"
"Huu... Huu..."
"Huing!! Patient! Pull yourself together! Patieeeent~"
"I'm gonna cum, Hilda."
"Ki... ssu... up!!♥♥ Heee~♥♥ Slurrrrp!!!"
"Ha! Master doesn't need treatment, doctor. Go suck on your fingers or something."
"Ma, Master?!?! Honey!!! Honeeeeey!!!"
And so, Ryu-o's daily life passed by peacefully(?).
In the early morning hours when Ryu-o was asleep.
-Swoosh...
The three women woke up at the same time and looked at each other.
"..."
"..."
"..."
"""Ugh..."""
Wearing shameful outfits that were hard to even look at.
I mean... if Ryu-o were watching, it wouldn't matter, but...
"Tsk. Why not just take it all off? You're too old for this."
"Ha! Look at you, acting all high and mighty, can't you see how you look?"
"What? You wanna die..."
"Jang Ryu-o is sleeping. We're all in the same boat, so stop it."
""......""
Still, Arin and Cheon Hwa-ryeong, who had some shame, kept their mouths shut.
It was Hilda who spoke up first.
"Arin... so, how did you come up with that idea?"
Arin fell into deep thought. Should she share this or not?
But, the calculation was quick. She had already realized something.
If she kept it to herself for no reason... there was nothing to gain!
"It was Guild Master Silvia's idea. She said she wore an outfit like this and completely stole Honey's mind."
"Hooo..."
"That, elf... she's quite something, isn't she?"
Hilda and Cheon Hwa-ryeong were genuinely impressed by an idea they never could have imagined.
This time, it was Arin's turn.
"So. How did you get those outfits? I thought neither of you would ever think of it?"
"Hmph! It's a secret..."
"I heard it from the Southern merchant who was kidnapped by Riner—that is, the Pink-haired one—last time."
"Little Duchess!"
Hilda shook her head at the sulking Cheon Hwa-ryeong.
"Internal strife won't do us any good. You all felt it, didn't you?"
""......""
That was true. The feeling of having Ryu-o's heart stolen, even for a moment, was awful.
At the two women's silence, Hilda continued her explanation.
"I've realized a few things from this incident. First, we must maintain business ethics."
-Nod, nod
"Second... we must never stop evolving."
""!!!!""
The women, whose happiness was Ryu-o's happiness, felt as if an electric current had passed through their heads.
"You all must have realized it. The sight of Jang Ryu-o, who couldn't keep his mind straight just from the outfit alone."
-Nod, nod!
"Since Silvia was the original proposer... we should contact our personnel..."
The bed meeting that day was a bit... not quite what you'd expect from the absolute rulers of the Labyrinth City.
It was... really something... the level was just...
Inside the spacious indoor training hall of the Duke's estate.
I waved back at my master, who was smiling and waving at me.
"Honey~ make sure you win~♥"
"Ha, haha... that's a bit..."
"Bullshit..."
Cheon Hwa-ryeong glared at my master once, then lifted her chin.
"Alright. Come at me."
Today was the day both of them were overseeing my training.
It was a truly rare opportunity.
I decided to use the ability I had acquired last time.
As I shouted "Optimization" in my mind...
-Kiiiiiing!!! Chijijijik!!! Chijik... Chijijijik!!!
The two energies mixed, and my body flickered as if it were lagging.
Cheon Hwa-ryeong's expression, which had been relaxed the whole time, was filled with astonishment.
My master seemed to have lost strength in her body, as she was supporting her upper body with her arms on the ground.
"Here I come!"
Hearing my response, Cheon Hwa-ryeong curled up the corners of her mouth.
She answered with an expression that showed she was having too much fun.
"Yeah, come on..."
-Clang!!
"Ha... you cheeky bastard!"
Cheon Hwa-ryeong easily deflected my close-range thrust using Supply.
I didn't stop and continued my thrusts.
-Clang! Swoosh, swoosh!! Clack, clack, clack!!
Cheon Hwa-ryeong dodged and deflected the attacks coming from all directions far too easily.
Crazy... how did she dodge the one I summoned right next to her temple?
As I had a fleeting moment of distraction, Cheon Hwa-ryeong was smiling right in front of my nose.
"????!??"
"Focus."
The moment I tried to read Cheon Hwa-ryeong's shoulder...
-Tap!
"Just now, your head would have exploded and you would have died."
Her hand had already struck my head.
"...... Still this much of a gap?"
"10... no. You're 3 years too early... 2 and a half years? Tsk... hurry up and do it properly."
I slightly twisted my ankle and lunged at Cheon Hwa-ryeong.
Cheon Hwa-ryeong tried to press down on my horizontal slash with her palm.
As her palm touched the blade, the sword passed through her palm.
"!!!!!!"
Just before the blade touched her waist, a red energy flickered at Cheon Hwa-ryeong's side.
-Clack, clack, clack!!!
Cheon Hwa-ryeong pulled the sword that had touched her waist to her armpit and shattered it.
-Crash!!!
I quickly created some distance and pulled out another practice sword.
-Shing!
"That was one hit, right?"
"Pfft... Hahahaha! Right! Now, I can't hold back anymore!!!"
Cheon Hwa-ryeong looked at me, laughing happily.
"I'm coming for real."
In an instant, all the information I could read from Cheon Hwa-ryeong was blocked.
How should I put it? A mountain? The sky?
I felt like I was facing a formless natural disaster.
To shake off the overwhelming fear, I lunged at Cheon Hwa-ryeong.
Just as I was about to slash down diagonally.
Cheon Hwa-ryeong gently stepped on the top of my foot and tapped my pelvis, solar plexus, and shoulder with her fingers.
"These three spots. They're open."
"Crazy..."
I slashed down with my sword anyway, but Cheon Hwa-ryeong's foot pushed my foot to the side.
My sword path, with my stance broken, grazed past Cheon Hwa-ryeong by a paper-thin margin.
As the sword cut through the air, Cheon Hwa-ryeong massaged her neck with her hand.
-Squeeze~
"If your stance is broken, you should know how to retract your attack."
... The processing time is different. It feels like it's twice as fast as before, and yet there's still such a gap.
When I coated my sword with Sword Qi, Cheon Hwa-ryeong's eyes widened.
"Hooo?"
-Craaaaack!!!!
Cheon Hwa-ryeong deflected my attacks with short, sharp strikes, flowing them away.
It seemed she chose to do that because the sword was passing through strangely in between.
This won't work.
As I increased the output further, a tremendous sound rang out from my body.
-Rumble!! Chijijijik! Chijik! Chijijijik!
I imbued the essence of Pacheon into the sword.
The space around the sword distorted and cracked.
-Craaaack!!!
I felt immense resistance, but it didn't matter.
My hand was...
-Chijijijik!!!
It had been thrust out as if teleporting.
Seeing my attack, Cheon Hwa-ryeong's face was filled with ecstasy.
Like someone who had discovered a miracle and been saved.
She laughed happily and stomped her foot once.
"Cheonmagunrimbo (Heavenly Demon's Imperial Step)"
-Boom————!
The Pacheon that was eating away at space bowed its head at Cheon Hwa-ryeong's single stomp.
A footstep that seemed to divide the world into layers and drive one layer into the ground.
I, who was flattened on the ground, said.
"I surrender..."
"Ha! You crazy bastard! Hahaha!!! Ahahahahahaha!!!"
Cheon Hwa-ryeong laughed happily, looking at me lying face down, wondering what was so funny.
My master ran to me and hugged me tightly.
-Squeeze!!!
"Honeeeeey~ I'm so proud of you... already... already reaching the Peak! Haauuu♥ I love you♥"
"You crazy bastard!!! As expected of a Heavenly Being, you're on a different level! Hahaha!"
"Huh? I reached the Peak?"
The two people who were looking at me and laughing happily had their mouths hanging open.
""???? You... didn't... know...?""
"...... I didn't know."
Cheon Hwa-ryeong shouted with a face that looked like she was going to die of annoyance.
"Ugh! I knew the moment I saw you, and you didn't know yourself! Do you mean you didn't even have an epiphany?"
"Uh... epiphany?"
"Ho, Honey. You didn't feel anything?"
"? It just felt like my arm extended as much as the sword, and I compressed my Qi firmly without waste..."
""That is the epiphany!!!""
"Ah."
So I was at the Peak.
To think I reached the Peak.
I stared blankly at my hands.
Only then did a smile form on my lips.
"This, I climbed up pretty fast, right?"
-Thwack!!!
"Ugh!!"
"Are you trying to kill the kid!"
"Shut up! This guy keeps pissing me off!!"
My master stroked my hair and showered my cheeks with kisses.
"Smooch!!♥♥ Oh, you're so pretty... my lucky charm, my pride, my love... smooch, smooch, smooch♥"
"Tsk tsk. It is the realm where Essence (Jing), Energy (Qi), and Spirit (Shen) reach the human peak. It's a realm that takes 60 years, a full life cycle, a Gapja (sixty-year cycle) of training to reach, you ignorant fool."
"Ignorant?! How smart our Honey is..."
"Just shut up!!!"
"I see..."
As I felt immense pride in the level I had reached, the two women's eyes sparkled.
"Huhu... since the output has changed, if we change the training method... maybe we can start cutting through the texture... Haa~♥"
"Tsk... what should we teach next? Gunrimbo? Mugeuk? Cheongangjo?"
They looked just like veteran gamers who had discovered a talented newbie.
Ah... I won't have any time to rest for a while.